Businessman who sold land for Kushner resort in Albania suspected of faking the deeds
Source: Reuters
Albania’s anticorruption prosecution service is investigating whether the deeds to a stretch of protected coastline earmarked for a Jared Kushner-backed resort were forged, according to case files reviewed by the Reuters news agency, adding another legal complication to a project that has already provoked months of street protests.
The files, compiled by the Special Structure Against Corruption and Organised Crime (SPAK), name Artur Shehu, a Miami-based businessman, as the seller who transferred the land to Albania Land Development, the entity behind the Kushner-linked scheme,
Prosecutors allege Shehu and his associates funnelled proceeds from cocaine trafficking into Albanian property, using falsified titles to disguise the money’s origin, and have since frozen roughly 110 million euros ($126m) tied to the sale in a notary’s account.
Shehu’s lawyer, Kujtim Cakrani, rejected the allegations outright. “Nothing that has been alleged regarding Mr Artur Shehu’s character is true,” he told Reuters, adding that his client was neither a trafficker nor a document forger and had lawfully sold land his family had held since Ottoman times.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/businessman-who-sold-land-kushner-resort-albania-suspected-faking-deeds-2026-07-11/
I take some small solace in this news. Albanian cocaine trafficker takes asylum in Florida — sounds about right.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article249841373.html
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This guy is in South Florida, and he sold Albanian government property to Jared Kushner who is also in South Florida, and the Albanian government was never consulted?
There's apparently no proof that the documents are real, according to this source. And what is the "Albania Land Development" company, is this an American or Albanian group? Who is going to verify these documents?
Why is Jared Kushner giving $ billions to an alleged drug trafficker?
We have questions....
Kushner and this guy, who ever the hell he is, are but a few small rungs above the "businessmen" who sold drugs in certain downtown neighborhoods back in my teen years. They were colloquially called "businessmen" even by the local paper at times. 
Maybe poor Jared was duped.
